Photo from 2006 L.A. rally by Susan Forrest, LA Indymedia.
So . . . why?
Why do some people hate us? Why would they want to kill us?
It would be easy to blame some religious institutions for their discrimination against LGB&T people. But even they don’t encourage violence.
Acts of violence are a personal matter. Nobody who commits such a crime can blame it on their church. The blame falls squarely on the perpetrator alone. No one else.
But, why? What is it in them that drives them to commit murderous acts?
What sickness afflicts them?
Jillian
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Readers’ comments
Jillian:
More and more people these days are comfortable with transgender people. I suspect the uneasiness felt by those who are uncomfortable with transgender people is rooted in their own lack of confidence and poor self image. These people have no reason to feel threatened by a transgender person, but when they do perhaps they see the transgender person as a symbol of everything wrong in their world, they become irrational and more often than not unleash a barrage of hate, or worse still are physically violent towards the transgender person. What can be done about this? We can only continue to raise awareness about the lives of transgender people; we can do this through our educational institutions, the workplace, government and private institutions, and through the media.
Kaye J
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